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Off to Sikor

Before
Alicia was even back here in Ukarumpa she was elected class co-representative
to the student council. One of her and the other rep’s first ideas was to go to
a village for a ministry trip. Tomorrow morning Alicia and I are off to Sikor
(see-core) village with the rest of the 10th grade where Alicia and
her classmates have planned several days of ministry to children of all ages
(you can bet several adults will join in). Tomorrow we will be driving for up
to eight hours to get there on some pretty rough roads… four-wheel drive is
required! The students will spend the next few days involved in everything from
skits to Bible stories to games. Then next Monday we drive back. The village
has no running water or power (save for a couple small generators run
periodically), but there is a cell tower on the hill behind them! So I’ll be
posting to Facebook on our ministry page. Just click the link below to see the
latest!

"Although
it's been said many times, many ways..." Christmas is the same year after year,
but it is never the same. It comes the same season, the same month, and the
same day every year, but children grow older... we grow older. This year marks a
significant change in the celebration of Christ's birth as Daniel and Stefanie
are 10,000 miles away. We miss them and the rest of our extended families and
it is that way with many of the missionary families around us. If we were to
celebrate Christmas the same way we normally do the missing members would add a
pall to the festivities, so this year we're doing something different...

Before the advent of the hub and spoke system in airline travel, a route
like this would have been sheer lunacy. This may not be a bad business model
for airlines, but it is terrible in Bible translation! Unfortunately, the "hub
language" system persists in translation efforts around the world and the hub
language in PNG is English. Most of the New Testaments in this country have
been translated from English into the local language and many things that would
translate directly are lost. And, what makes it worse is that national
translators have learned English as a second, third, fourth, or even fifth
language! It is clear that the further you get from the original language, the
more molted the meaning....